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While most people move heaven and earth to get to the top of the ladder, the Hecks live their life to the fullest somewhere in The Middle. Frankie (Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond, Back to You), a loving wife and mother who sees family as the most precious asset in her life, and her husband, Mike (Neil Flynn, Scrubs, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), a man of few words, resided in the small town of Orson, Indiana, since forever.

The couple has three children. There’s Axl (Charlie McDermott, Medium, Private Practice), an athletic and bodacious teenager, who was conceived when Guns N’ Roses were in the headlines, Sue (Eden Sher, Weeds, The O.C.), the socially awkward middle child who is constantly being mocked, especially by her elder brother, and last but not least, Brick (Atticus Shaffer, The Penguins of Madagascar, Shake It Up), the family’s cadet, who loves to read and has the strange habit of repeating words from his previous sentence to himself in a whisper.

After losing her position as a receptionist at a dentist office, Frankie takes a job at Ehlert Motors, becoming in a little while the third best used car salesman (out of the three). The ones who always strain her patience are her quarreling parents, Pat (Marsha Mason, Frasier, Army Wives) and Tag (Jerry Van Dyke, Coach, My Name is Earl), and her elderly aunts, who are heavy smokers and drinkers. An understanding husband and father, Mike manages a local quarry. That sort of thing wants some doing, but he always seems to come through for Frankie and the kids.